Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young woman of Latin descent--she was extremely short and wore a headband and some kind of peasant dress--nudged my arm, looked up at me, and said, "We're Maoist utopians and we're prepared to fight to the death." I smiled politely...
High on the bankers' 1984 worry list were their loans to Latin American nations, which staggered under a $350 billion debt burden. In June representatives of the debtor countries huddled in Cartagena, Colombia, raising fears that they would form a cartel to bargain collectively for easier terms. Warned Colombian President Belisario Betancur: "We hear the far-off thunder of violent drums. We feel the winds of storms." Despite such rhetoric, most of the debtors chose negotiation over confrontation. Mexico persuaded the banks to stretch out its payments on $48 billion in loans, originally due between now and 1990, over...
...canvases were documentary. They were about power and torture on the fringes of Western politics in Latin America: "White Squad" killers, interrogators, mercenaries, the seedy and deadly emissaries of order. The paintings were huge, some of the figures nearly twice lifesize. Tacked unstretched to the wall like tapestries or (as Golub prefers to think of them) like skins, they resembled, in their stark silhouetting and red earth-colored backgrounds, Roman frescoes whose surfaces had been corrupted by the blackening breath of the late 20th century...
...Chicago public school, Teacher Robert Creighton wraps himself in a sheet before entering class. "When I walk into the room in a toga," he explains, "I've got everyone's attention." He holds it with a Latin version of What's My Line?, spelling bees and a puppet show starring a mouse named Equus Eddie. In Fairfax, Va., Maureen O'Donnell awards daily bonus points to high school students who can pick out pop items like Top 40 song titles scribbled in Latin on the blackboard...
...Donnell returned to teaching the subject seven years ago, after raising six children. Her re-entry came at the nadir for Latin in the U.S. In 1976 just over 150,000 American public high school students took the language, down a disastrous 79% from the 1962 peak of 702,000. "Latin went into a slump with the Sputnik era, with its concentration on science and technology," she recalls. And she says, "Then came the permissive age," the 1960s and early 1970s, when demands for so-called relevancy in course content pushed many schools to reduce or abandon classical studies...